Holder for safety-razor blades.



J. W. B. LAKBR.

HOLDER FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES. APPLIOATION HLED JULY G, 1510sA 922,296, Patented May 18, 1909.

JOHN W. E. LAKEP., Ol" VICTORIA. BRITISH iOliUMlllA, CANADA.

HOLDER FOR SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mav 18. 1909.

Application led July 6, 1908. Serial No. 442,181.

,'o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, J'onN W. E. linnen, a citizen of the British Empire, residing at Victorin., British Colombia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful lin )rovements in llolders for Safety-Razor Edades,

of which the following is a specification.

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This invention relates to improvements in devices for holding the blades of safety razors while they are being honed or stropped, and consists in certain peculiarities in the construction and arrangement of parts thereof and in certain novel combinations of elements substantially as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the subjoined claims.

'lhe objects of the invention will he readily seen from the following description of the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, which illustrates what I at present regard as the best embodiment of my invention. i

ln said drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of my improved holder, showing a blade clamped in position therein for stropping or honing. F ig. 2 is a longitudinal 'section through the same. Fig. 3 is a section on the line il ot' Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing the clamping members separated for the insertion or removal of a blade. Eig. 5 is a plan view ol the implement with the movable jaw swung down to its l'ull extent.

The same elniraeters of reference designate thel same )arts in the several views.

Mv improve( holder comprises leur irin cipal members as follows: a holder or chambcred handle, a clamp having jaws which are located outside the handle and are movable rela tively thereto, a spring-pressed adjusting means which has one end connected to the jaws and another end protrudcd from the handh` l'or convenience in actuating it against its spring, and a looking means which holds the jaws in clam ing position.

'lho handle A is preferably composed of wood, and l'orlned with anopcuing extending cnt ircly through it and closed at its rear end by a removable threaded bushing '.5 having an a )erlurc .through which the jaws adjusting device protriules. 'lhe adjusting means for the jaws )referably consists of a straight rod or spindle Il extending longitudinally through the opening l in the handle. anda This spring acts upon an abutment 5 secured to the rod and tends to force the rod to its rearnuist position, and hence serves to holding the clamping jaws l() and 11 against accidental displacement from their loekiiw means and also automatically to move saidmembers into engagement wit 1 the same.

The lookin means referred to is preferably inthe form o a cap l) which is removabl se-v cured, as by a. in 6, to the forward endo the handle and ceses the same. This. cap is formed with an aperture 7 into which the Shanks 8 and 9 of the clampinilr jaws l0 und 11 extend and it eoperates with said Shanks to hold the jaws against movement relatively to each other.

The `aws and 11 are preferably formed integra with the Shanks 8 and 9 and are expanded laterally beyond the same sufiiciently to engage the entire blade, except the edge .fr of the same which is to be stropped or honed.

One of the jaws, as 10, has one of its edges formed with spaced ln s 12 which project from the longitudinal e ge of the same, and the other of the jaws 11, has a longitudinal flange, 13, which extends into the space be tween said lugs andis pivoted thereto, as shown at 14. The jaws. are thus hingedly connected along one longitudinal edge and their hingedly connected edges are, at the same time, well adapted to form the back of the implement upon which the same may be turned in stroppin or honing in the same manner and with t 1e same facility and advantages as in the ease of stropping or lioningran ordinary razor.

he 'awe l() and l1 are preferably made quite tliin and are beveled from the backs toward their lient edges. One jaw is formed with apertures l5 which are alincd with those ordinariij formed in safety razor blades and the other jaw is l'ormcd with projections 16 which extend through the apertures in the blad(` and into the apertures l5 and thereby [ix the blade against movement in the jaws.

In praetioe it is prcl'errcd, as shown, t0 lorm the lixod jaws ll), its shank 8 and the spindle 3 integral with cach other, and'to reduce the diameter ol thc metal etth6 junction ol' the spindle and shank to an `elfitent equal to the thickness ol' the shank 9 ol' the pivoted 'aw 1l, as shown at 17, a shoulder being lormed at the latter plane his i 1 believe to be new Vand desire to secure by -prising a handle, ivota ly `which is connected to the movable part and is adapted to move the 'same bodily in one 'lhe spindle thus extends into the aperture i in the locking-cap 5, and fills the inner side thereof. From the' shank 8 thc metal isl thinned and widenedto form the jaw 10. This construction of jaw, shank and spindle may be economically produced.

Brom the foregoing the advantages of my invention will be understood, it being understood that a device constructed as herein set forth may be inexpensively produced, will present a neat ap earance, will be durable,ma be most rea ily assembled and disassemble will most e'eetively clamp a blade and while overcomin any tendency of accidental loosening o the clamping action yet affords provision forconvenient separation of the jaws when desired, and protects all portions of the blade except the edge which is being stropped or honed, and enables the stropping or honing operation to erformed in the same manner as is racticed in the stropping or honing of ordinary or non-safety razors. It will also be aparent that the invention is not restricted to the details illustrated and that many changes therein and manyapparently widely different variations of the invention ma be made without departing from the s int of the invention or the scope of the su joined claims.

Having thus described the invention what Letters Patent, is

1. A holder for a safet razor blade, comeonneeted jaws, means encircling t e Jaws for lookin them together against pivotal movement, t ie jaws and their said encircling means having relative movement bodily, and'ineans for producing such movement, comprising a rod direction and a sprin which is connected to the rod and moves t e movable part bodily in the other direction.

2. A holder' for a safety razor blade, con1- prisin a chambered handle, jaws arranged outsi( e said handle and pivotall connected with eachother, aloekin means or th/e jaws, and means for movin t e jaws into and out of engagement with t ie lookin means, comprising a spindle arranged in t 1e chamber in the handle and connected with the jaws and adapted to move the same in one direction and a s move't iejaws in the o posite direction.

3. A holder for a sa ety razor blade, coniprisng a chambered handle having an apertured cap at one end, a longitudinally movable spindle arranged in said chamber and extending through said cap, a jaw connected to the other end of the spindle, a second jaw pivoted at its longitudinal edge to the longitudinal edge of the first jaw `and provided with a shank to enter the aperture in the cap, and a sprin for pressing the spindle and jaws in one irection.

l 4. A holder for asafety razor blade, comprising a chambered handle having an apertured ca at one end, l jaw formed with a shank which extends into the aperture of said cap and is provided with a rearwardly extending spindle which projects through the handle and is of greater 'thickness than the Shank and jaw, and a second jaw mounted on the first jaw and having a shank to enter the aperture in the cap, one of said spaced lu s projecting from its ongitudina edge and e other having a ange which extends from its longitudinal edge and is reoeived by the space between said 1u s, and means orlpivotally connecting sai flange and lugs together. I l

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. E. LAKER.

Witnesses:

R. H. WlLsoN, W. Wnlou'r.

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